ice maiden


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ice maiden

n
a beautiful but aloof woman
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The Channel 4 star will present Ice Warriors on Saturday evenings dressed as an Ice Maiden. The show will feature a team of four men and four women called the Ice Pack who'll challenge new contestants each week.
They've decided that Trial & Retribution, which stars Victoria Smurfit as ice maiden police detective Roisin Connor, will do the job.
DRESSED TO KILL: As the countess' THE ICE MAIDEN: In scene from film Pictures: WIREIMAGE.COM
Alun, who spent three hours crafting the 5ft 10ins ice maiden in Hopkinstown, South Wales, said: "I really enjoyed making my snowgirl's silicon bits.
But while Vanessa looks red-hot, she has been called an ice maiden.
Who" series, "The Culling" by the team of authors John and Carole Barrowman, and featuring the artwork and illustrations of Neil Edwards finds that Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, along with the crew of the alien tech-filled ship Ice Maiden, must stop the alien Navigators' plan to 'compost' the Earth, but first they must deal with the duplicitious Lady Karina, the roguish Captain John Hart, and a clone like nothing they've seen before!
The 'Ice Maiden' team of British Servicewomen made history in January by becoming the first all-female team to ski coast-to-cost across the Antarctic.
Members of the British Army's Ice Maiden Expedition in Antarctica, which has become the first all-female team to cross Antarctica using only muscle power
Expedition Ice Maiden member Major Sandy Hennis shared her experiences with the audience at Birmingham's Opus Restaurant.
She looks like the lonely ice maiden but we know she has feelings too.
One minute journalists are accusing me of being an ice maiden or a robot, then they claim I'm a weeping woman in dire need of a good night's sleep.
I excelled at tennis myself, and my cool demeanour on the courts earned me the nickname 'The Ice Maiden'.